DarthTex

I got this in an e-mail awhile back. I don't know if it's accurate or not, but it definitely fits ... You gotta love Robin Williams......Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message. Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!) "I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan." 1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys", we will never "interfere" again. 2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence. 3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them. 4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers. 5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby. 6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while. 7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.) 8 ) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything. 9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens. 10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan? "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' " Uh Rob, Mad hasn't commented in this thread. Do you mean someone else, or are thinking of something Mad said in another thread?

Good God people! Get off the "oh no, the world is doomed. We've screwed up Mother Nature" bit. Yes, outright pollution is very bad, but all this crap about the temperatures bit is like a run away stage coach. If you compare how long humans have been recording world temps over the lifetime of the planet, it's like "a blink of an eye". Then take that "blink of an eye" data and extrapolate the future temperatures of the world for the next hundred years? Doom! Doom! Doom! Give me a break! Go invent a time machine that get some good solid reasonable data to use. Hell, 30+ years ago it was the opposite, "the world if freezing". There were plans to "dust" the polar ice caps with ash so they would absorb more sunlight so they would melt! Now, it's the opposite. In another 30 years, it'll be back to freezing!

Budious, that's a shame man , but being the devious Sith Lord that I am I have an evil plan at the ready. With the help of your fellow SWR members (especially Mad & Tofu), you can regain "the top of the heap glories". First, find lots of online forums and such that you would like to join if you really had the time; assign a fellow SWR member to that site providing your username (Budious, of course) and the password; then, have them all release their anger through the Dark Side, ... I mean release their SPAM! The other "budious" doesn't know the POWER of the Dark Side, ... I mean SPAM! With the super SPAM abilities of your fellow SWR members (especially Mad & Tofu), this will be a short project

Ah, good ol' Teddy and the Bull Moose party. I wish he were around today; I'd vote for him in a heart beat

That's "wild West"; but other than "President's Day" there are no other official holidays in February. President Day? In which honor is that? Originally there was George Washington's birthday and then Abraham Lincoln's birthday on different days in February. To avoid too many holidays, they were combined into a single holiday which was renamed President's Day, which then included all US Presidents. @Tofu: Yes there is Valentine's Day, but it's not an official "schools and banks closed, you might get the day off" kind of holiday I don't think President's Day is like that anymore now. It used to be, but when MLK got his official holiday in January, that got the "closed/day off" status and President's Day, just became another work day.

That's "wild West"; but other than "President's Day" there are no other official holidays in February.

It's Area 51, they keep all of the aliens locked up. What more proof do you need?

For all we know they probably already work for the Empire

Hey Mad, ... what holidays? (boy, I sure hope he isn't thinking about Christmas break already. It's only February!)

Los Alamos has the gov't research facility, which won't give you a tour; but still somehow let's secrets escape like a sieve. Unless you have a very high power telescope, or a plane, or both ... you won't see anything but desert, gov't warning signs and patrols at Area 51. And these guys (the patrols) are hardass serious about EVERYTHING; they'll lock you up first and take their time asking questions ... if they ask any at all

You might be thinking of the luxury tax, but one correction: the rich far outspend the poor for basic consumption needs (just because they're rich mind you). Also for an example: the rich guy spending $90,000 on a Mercedes pays more in taxes than a poor guy spending $10,000 on a Kia. Also, taxes are built into the price of EVERYTHING so it does not appear as a separate line item on receipts. Everybody (including the rich) receive a "prebate" every month (basically a subsidy on the taxes that would be paid if you were at the poverty level). That way "the poor" aren't spending their own money on taxes for essentials. The more you spend, the more taxes get paid. Now, if I were to get to keep the +30% the gov't is taking out of my paycheck, I'd be buying things I otherwise couldn't. Meaning I'll be paying taxes on those purchases, AND stimulating the economy by purchasing more goods, at the same time. A better economy means people get lower prices, and there should be more jobs, which means more people have money to buy things which means more taxes are being paid. Get it? Got it? Good! And the best part ... NO IRS! No "Big Brother" watching over every penny you bring in But the "flat tax" isn't fair. Let's say the flat tax is 10%; If a rich guy makes $1 million, he pays $100,000 in taxes and lives off $900,000. A poor guy making $20,000 pays $2,000 in taxes and lives off $18,000. That $2,000 for the poor guy can buy a lot of food, medicine and essentials, whereas the rich guy with $900,000 left would probably hardly even realize he paid any taxes at all. The rich spend more than the poor. If you want to get at all of that extra money they have "squirrelled away", you have to get at it when they spend it. Consumption tax is the way to go. A different hair-brained idea I have is to have a simple logarithmic based tax rate. Everybody subtracts off the poverty level from the base income, and sticks that amount into the formula. That way a person making $50,000 pays slightly more (in percentage) that a person making $49,000. The actual difference would be small, but as the base pay goes up, the rate really starts to increase (say about a 5% rate at $50,000 and 25% at $1 million). There would be no deductions for anything. The gov't tax form would be a post card. I made this much money and should pay this amount. I paid this amount over the last year based on my estimated base pay (nobody knows if they'll get OT or not, or how much). This is the amount I still owe, or this is the amount I overpaid. Period. Nice and simple.

Maybe the US will only declare war on Quebec; all that French blood might make them decide to surrender

If you play multiplayer, both players must have the same files in order to play. Otherwise the game won't play I guess this prevents cheating

The IRS ( ) should be abolished! Everybody should take a look at http://www.fairtax.org Kudos for you Rob. Follow your own dreams to ... whatever ... in ... American history, or whatever your new major is

No problem amigo. I hope you enjoy your stay. Take lots of pictures and keep a daily journal for prosperity's sake. Maybe you could post a few when you get back

Well, you know what they say about "old people" Tofu; we're stuck in our ways Let's hear it for Rudy, he's going to run (and win)!! Yee Haw!!

On Tax day!? I guess that's one way of beating the tax blues Congrats Rob! Excuse for a minute, I gotta go wii ...

I think you should stay home and work on the "Tales of the New Sith Order". You can go to the movies later

But at what expense? I recall (I'll have to research it again now) that he eliminated a BIG chunk of our National Defense (a couple of Army divisions, several Navy and Air Force Air wings, several Navy ships including an aircraft carrier and several nuclear powered submarines, etc), and raised our taxes. Oh, I forgot (another senior moment for me) you weren't old enough to pay taxes at the time, much less understand them. Probably even a lot less of what was going on in the world at the time, but that's an entirely different topic. Basically to put it bluntly, Slick Willy was NOT a good president. He'll only be remembered for getting a BJ at the White House. Now, I ask you honestly, is that the kind of legacy you would like to support and have?

Only if I don't shave after a month I haven't heard of any. It's usually way too hot for a furry fellow to hang around, ya know? But east Texas is milder with some nice forested areas, so that could be a possible vacation spot if he/they ever migrate south for the winter

If I had the computer skills, I would insert Bigfoot's head into the following clip

Like JH mentions above, get AAA to suggest/list events in each city and places to stay. I would suggest after "touring" Austin, head south on IH35 to San Marcos (there's a giant outlet mall there with gobs of stores), then stop in New Braunfels/Gruene (pronounced "green") to do some "tubing" (floating on a cold river in the heat of summer relaxing and drinking beer ), continue south on IH35 to San Antonio. Just outside the city limits visit Natural Bridge Caverns like JH mentioned (it's nice to see). Now in July, there aren't to many festivals and such because it's just too gosh darn hot. But, there are the "Missions" (there are 7 missions built by the Spanish; back in my younger days , that are nice to visit). The "Alamo" is one of them, plus since it is downtown there are several shops/museums/malls and such to visit (if you go downtown, make sure to visit the River Walk and Market Square ). Now, after visiting San Antonio, I would suggest going west on Highway 90 to Del Rio, then to Big Bend Nation Park (the park has its own website and if you want to stay there, get reservations early ). AAA might suggest sticking to the main highway (IH10), but you'll miss all of the local scenery by doing so. I haven't visited Del Rio much, so I don't really know what to visit there. There is a big lake there with water activities and a prehistoric Indian site that's very interesting. Big Bend is wonderful for hiking and such, with a wide variety of hiking trails and activities. The local towns around the park are quite fascinating also. I'm heading out to Big Bend this summer myself for a little "commune" with nature at the end of June. After Big Bend head to El Paso. I've never been to El Paso, so you'll have to rely on AAA or the local tourism people/website on what to do there. Other than that, all I can say is see the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam (outside Lav Vegas) and have a good time on "the Strip" (in Las Vegas; the food is inexpensive at the casinos )

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OK Verdex, you and the little woman are planning to visit Texas; Yee Haw! Now were you planning on visiting specific cities or the whole state? Now, if you're going to visit the whole state, you'll need a couple of months to see most of the big cities (and you'll be spending most of your time: traveling). Texas is a BIG state (<== check out the link; it's over a 250,000 square miles, and takes approximately 13 to 14 hours to drive across east-west or north-south). Sooooo ... I could write here for hours and hours about everything. But to save some time, when exactly were you planning this trip? I would suggest visiting this website http://www.traveltex.com/. It should help answer any general questions and help you decide where you want to go (depending on your time frame), or what to do when you are in Texas. Let me know if you have any detailed questions

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